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San Francisco Seals
Full name	San Francisco Seals
Nickname(s)	The Seals
Founded	1992
Ground	Negoesco Stadium (Capacity 3,000)
Chairman	Tom Simpson
Manager	Paul Aigbogun
League	USL Premier Development League
2007	6th, did not make playoffs
Home colours 　 Away colours

San Francisco Seals is an American soccer team, originally founded in 1992. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and plays in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference against teams from Bakersfield, Fresno, Glendora, Irvine, La Mirada, Lancaster, Los Angeles, San Jose and Ventura.

The Seals play their home games at different venues in and around the city of San Francisco, California, including the College of Alameda in Alameda, California, Livermore High School in Livermore, California, and at Negoesco Stadium on the campus of the University of San Francisco. The team's colors are black and white.

No. Position Player 1 GK Martin Ogstrup 2 FW Anthony Grillo 3 DF Chris Rodd 4 MF Anton Peterlin 5 FW Jordan Keyes 6 MF Matthew Werasko 7 FW Johnny Gonzales 8 DF Brian Martin 9 MF Shani Simpson 10 FW Jose Carlos Diaz 11 DF Danny Warrender 12 MF Stephen Cordova 13 MF Tyler Imbrogno 14 FW James Bent 15 MF Victor Cortez

No. Position Player 16 MF Rawlston Masaniai 17 DF Bill Robertson 18 MF Jesse Henderson 19 DF Richard Halvorsen 20 MF Ryan Overdevest 21 FW Keith Ratzburg 22 DF Kyle Schlumpf 23 DF David Vedder 24 MF Sam Krow-Lucal 26 GK Bradley Williams 27 GK Luis Montanez 28 GK Eric Conner FW John Colan DF Creag Robertson

The San Francisco United Soccer Club (SFUSC) was first organized as a youth soccer club in 1985. Drawing on talented players from throughout the bay area, SFUSC soon became a "super club" and a dominant force in California state youth soccer. In 1990 SFUSC won the California Youth Soccer Associations (CYSA) state championship. It then continued on to take the Region IV title which put it into the National Cup final. However, the rise of the "super clubs" such as SFUSC and the La Jolla (San Diego) Nomads sparked a counter reaction from smaller California youth teams and in 1992 CYSA implemented rules to prevent these clubs from forming or competing. Faced with this opposition, the SFUSC decided to forsake the traditional path to amateur success, through the state competitions, and enter a team in the U.S. Interregional Soccer League (USISL), the forerunner of today's United Soccer Leagues.

In 1992, the SFSCU formed its team, known as the San Francisco All-Blacks based on its all black uniform, and entered it in the USISL. While the first year went poorly, the team continued to improve in the face of stiff national-level competition. In 1994, the All Blacks, now known as San Francisco United, took first place in the Pacific Conference. In 1996, the club changed the team's name to the San Francisco Bay Seals. In 1998, the Seals moved up to the A-League. In 2000, SFSCU sold the team to new ownership, which renamed the team the Bay Area Seals. However, the Seals lasted only to the end of the 2000 season before folding.

The Seals were division champions three times, in 1994, 1995 and 1997. In 1997, the Seals made an incredible and historic run to the semi finals of the US Open Cup. After winning the D3 US Open Cup, the Seals knocked out the Seattle Sounders, the previous year's Open Cup Champions. They then took out two Major League Soccer clubs. First came the Kansas City Wiz in the round of 16, and then the San Jose Clash in the quarter finals at the Clash's home field, Spartan Stadium. The Seals' Cinderella run through higher division clubs came to an end in the semi-finals when they lost 2-1 to D.C. United.

In 2006 the original owners brought the team back, this time to the PDL as the San Francisco Seals.

• C.J. Brown
• Troy Dayak
• Joe Enochs
• Matt Fitzgerald
• Kevin Long
• Steve Purdy

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